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died at a very advanced age in 1793. He was suc- 
ceeded by his nephew, the Very Reverend Holt 
Waring, Dean of Dromore, who was born in 1766, 
and whom I had the honour to know. With him I 
happened to be travelling through the Mourne moun- 
tains, in the county of Down, on our way to the Earl 
of Roden’s, about the year 1834 or 1835, when the con- 
versation turning upon the social condition of Ireland 
in the previous century, hetoldme that a foal belonging 
to his uncle had been killed by a Wolf in the stable 
at Waringstown, and that he, when a boy, had heard 
the occurrence repeatedly adverted to in the family 
circle. The dean was a man of singularly acute mind 
and accurate memory, and unless this statement of his 
be altogether a delusion, this would seem to be the 
last recorded appearance of a Wolf in Ireland.” 
The last piece of evidence collected has reference 
to a communication which appeared in The 
Zoologist for 1862 (p. 7996), under the heading, 
“Wolf Days of Ireland.” On applying to the writer, 
Mr. Jonathan Grubb, of Sudbury, for further parti- 
culars, he obligingly replied in a letter, dated June 6, 
1877, as follows :— 
‘‘T am now in my seventieth year. My father, 
who was born in 1767, used to tell the Wolf stories 
to us when we were children. His mother—my 
erandmother—related them to him. She was born in 
1731. Her maiden name was Malone; and her 
uncles, from whom she received her information, were 
the actors in the scenes described at Ballyrogegin, 
county Kildare. She remembered one of them, 
